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Reference Points and Effort Provision [PDF]

A key open question for theories of reference-dependent preferences is what determines the reference point. One candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs.
Lorenz Götte, Johannes Abeler, David Huffman, Armin Falk   +3 more
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Reference-Dependent Utility in an Industrial Cluster [PDF]

, 2003
This article tries to explain the exceptional levels of knowledge creation in certain industrial clusters, levels that are seemingly higher than what is implied by the usual models of atomistic agents who do not internalize externalities.
Olsson, Ola
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Assessment of visual quality and social perception of cultural landscapes: application to Anyi traditional villages, China

Heritage Science
The assessment of landscape visual quality (LVQ) holds significant importance in the preservation and advancement of traditional villages. One challenge in measuring human perception lies in establishing a connection between public preferences and ...
Ning Kang, Chunqing Liu
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Considering evacuees’ route preferences in emergency evacuation: a route choice model based on mental accounting theory

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
The increasing number of natural disasters has heightened the need for evacuation. During evacuation, route choices of evacuates are affected by the road condition and evacuees’ reference-dependent evaluations.
Lu Yang, Xiaowei Hu, Xie Yu, Zhang Yantang, An Shi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Use of a Deep Recurrent Neural Network to Reduce Wind Noise: Effects on Judged Speech Intelligibility and Sound Quality

Trends in Hearing, 2018
Despite great advances in hearing-aid technology, users still experience problems with noise in windy environments. The potential benefits of using a deep recurrent neural network (RNN) for reducing wind noise were assessed.
Mahmoud Keshavarzi, Tobias Goehring, Justin Zakis, Richard E. Turner, Brian C. J. Moore   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A study of the user's perception of economic value in nursing visits to primary care by the method of contingent valuation

BMC Family Practice, 2011
Background The identification of the attribution of economic value that users of a health system assign to a health service could be useful in planning these services. The method of contingent valuation can provide information about the user's perception
Conde-López Juan, Ariza-Cardiel Gloria, Domínguez-Bidagor Julia, Polentinos-Castro Elena, Rodríguez-Martínez Gemma, Tello Bernabé Eugenia, del Cura-González Isabel, Gómez-Gascón Tomás, Pérez-Rivas Francisco, Martín-Fernández Jesús, Beamud-Lagos Milagros, Aguado-Arroyo Óscar, Sanz-Bayona Teresa, Gil-Lacruz Ana   +13 more
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Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik, İsmail Güderer, Yi Wang, Tayyaba Alvi, Prasoon Pandey, Handan Melike Dönertaş   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Pygmalion Effect: An Agency Model with Reference Dependent Preferences [PDF]

We attempt to formulate and explain two types of self-fulfilling prophecy, called the Pygmalion effect (if a supervisor thinks her subordinates will succeed, they are more likely to succeed) and the Galatea effect (if a person thinks he will succeed, he ...
Hideshi Itoh, Kohei Daido
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Reference-dependent preferences in the public and private sectors: A nonlinear perspective [PDF]

, 2009
Although existing studies in the strategic management literature examine the importance of reference points in the context of managerial decisions vis-à-vis organizational performance, there is surprisingly little evidence on how reference earnings ...
Tsitsianis, Nikolaos, Tsitsianis, N, Georgellis, Yannis, Gregoriou, A, Gregoriou, Andros, Georgellis, Y   +5 more
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Reference-Dependent Risk Preferences of Higher Orders [PDF]

, 2020
This paper analyzes risk attitudes of higher orders, such as prudence and temperance, in models of reference-dependent preferences. We employ a wide range of exogenous as well as endogenous references and find unexpected results that hold in very general
Johannes Maier, Maximilian Rüger
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